Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 13:07:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: David Jones <dej@inode.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD on notebook w/ Xircom adapter Message-ID: <XFMail.001005130736.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <00100323183802.00372@coup.inode.org>
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On 04-Oct-00 David Jones wrote: > I am in the market for a notebook computer. Which will have my favorite OS > installed on it. > > I was in the showroom today with the 4.1-RELEASE KERN and MFSROOT disks to > check compatability. Everything seems to work, except for the Ethernet card > - > a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (CEM56), which if_xe.c claims > to > support. Err, the card is probably a cardbus card. FreeBSD doesn't support card-bus cards yet, so you'd have to find a PC-Card (aka PCMCIA) card to use with FreeBSD for the time being. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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